The aroma of the roses hit him before he even opened the door. When he did, he saw a delivery person, holding a beautiful bouquet of long-stemmed red roses. No card. He felt a surge of energy through his limbs.

He took the flowers, his hand lingering on the stem. He hurried inside, completely forgetting about the other things he had been about to do. He found a vase and filled it with water, eager to display the roses.

He circled the table, admiring the blossoms from every angle. He found himself pacing the room, his thoughts a whirlwind of possibilities. A warmth radiated from his core, and he started smiling for no apparent reason.

Emotion: excited

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.21 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.05

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion excited. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 excited stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the excited emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the excited vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.809
!0.564
excitedly0.500
🤩0.491
!"0.466
Suppressed:
S-0.721
ness-0.519
😞-0.424
grieve-0.310
😔-0.300